Greece

The European Court of Justice (ECJ), the supreme court of the European Union, ruled that three EU member states have breached their obligations under EU law by refusing to take a number of refugees who are stranded in Greece...

Greek governments have been battling over sole ownership of the "Greek yogurt" product for decades, with a new big battle inside the EU rapidly rising. This time it is the Czech Republic which is under the sights of the...

Czech President Milos Zeman proposed that refugees and migrants who end up trapped in Greece be sent to uninhabited islands, in exchange for a gradual reduction of the state debt. The Czech Republic leader was on Rhodes on October 4...

On Wednesday the Czech Republic announced in a report that they will be resettling 10 asylum seekers from Greece, as part of the agreement that all EU countries have undertaken. The agreement deals with the redistribution and resettlement of migrants...

The Czech Republic and Greece have coordinated a police raid exposing an international criminal network of migrant smugglers and document forgers. The Czech police have released a video of the raid that took place at the end of May. The...

Czech Foreign Minister Lubomír Zaorálek invited Greek counterpart Nikos Kotzias to visit Prague as soon as possible and vowed to return the visit on Wednesday, in an effort to restore relations between the two countries which soured after the...

The Greek government has called the Greek ambassador to the Czech Republic back to Greece for deliberations, following remarks by the country's president on Greece's presence in the Eurozone, Greek media report. The dispute began when Czech Republic President Milos Zeman...

The 42-year-old Czech Jiri Smejc, twice married, with two children and a fortune of over $2 billion may be the new owner of the Greek Organization of Football Prognostics OPAP S.A. within the next week. Smejc is a specialist in...

The Czech Republic held off Greece to record a 2-1 win in Wroclaw on Tuesday, kick-starting their Euro 2012 Group A campaign. After going down 4-1 to Russia in their opening match last Friday, the Czechs were out to make...

Greece hope that a repetition of the fighting spirit that saw them come from behind to draw 1-1 with Euro 2012 co-hosts Poland in the opening match will be enough to beat the Czech Republic tomorrow. Victory in itself would...

Three Czech tourists died in a coach accident near Grevena in northern Greece Wednesday, the Star FM Greek radio station has reported and the Czech Embassy in Athens confirmed to CTK. Two Czech women aged about 25 died instantly and...

A replica of a legendary Caribbean privateer ship, the "La Grace", docked at the Flisvos marina on the southern coast of Athens on Saturday.  The ship was christened on Sunday, May 1st in an event aimed to promote the...

It was April 6, 1941 when Germany launched a massive attack on Greece's northern border after Italy failed to capture the country.

The Greek passport has jumped up two places and is now the fifth most powerful in the world, according to the latest Henley Passport Index. This year saw a strong reshuffle in the list, announced annually by the London-based migration...

Greek resistance to the Axis powers during the Second World War was the longest of all the nations of Western Europe, with the exception of the UK, which was never occupied outside of the Channel Islands. According to historical records,...